Sabine Kuegler

She wrote the bestselling book The Jungle Child, which was made into a film under the same title in 2011. Her parents lived in Nepal with the Danwar (Danuwar) language group to study and support their language. For political reasons, they had to leave the country in 1976 and returned to Germany. The family later went to western New Guinea to join the Fayu people who lived deep in the jungle in isolation.

Upon her return to the western world, Sabine Kuegler completed her apprenticeship at the age of 17 at a Swiss boarding school in Montreux on Lake Geneva. In her first book, she describes her experiences of two social environments and their conflicts, as well as her personal difficulties of adjustment. Her life story and her problems are typical of children of the so-called third culture, people who grew up in several cultures during their childhood and adolescence.